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Tag Archives: ipm calculator
SPN: Online pest risk school IPM tool helps schools locate pest problems
A new online pest risk evaluation tool will help school integrated pest management (IPM) coordinators around the country assess what pest problems exist in their school and where they are. The tool is featured in an article in the Journal of Extension. Adoption of IPM in a school often happens reluctantly, after IPM practices are mandated or after numerous reports of pests in the school. Many schools contract with pest control companies to do a monthly treatment, but results can be uneven if the source of the pest… Read More →
School Pest News, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2014
Applicator Licensing Requirements in TX Janis Reed, Ph.D., BCE, Extension Program Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Licensing questions are extremely common with applicators in Texas. Often applicators are unsure which type of license they need from of the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), an agriculture license or a structural license. Additionally, as outsourcing of services becomes more and more common, transitioning between utilizing using staff to manage pests, to hiring outside pest management companies can be confusing for both the pesticide applicators as well as administration. To make… Read More →
School Pest News, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2014
Forming a battlefront against pests in schools: the pest management team By Rosemary Hallberg, Southern IPM Center and Janet Hurley, TX A&M AgriLife Extension Think of a school IPM program as a battle with a powerful army. The more people you have on your side, the more likely you are to have victory. Insects and small rodents may be smaller than us, but they adapt quickly and enter and exit through places that are normally ignored by people, such as tiny cracks under a door or a small… Read More →
School Pest News, Volume 11, Issue 6, October 2012
Calculate Your School District’s IPM Budget and Pest Risk Texas A&M AgriLife Extension school IPM extension specialists Mike Merchant and Janet Hurley have created an online IPM risk calculator to help schools estimate pest risk and IPM costs. The calculator includes an online questionnaire that leads the user through an IPM inspection, much like the inspection Hurley conducts when she visits a school. After data from the inspection are entered, the calculator generates a “pest risk report card” with a letter grade from A to F. A graph… Read More →
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